The researches on “high risk” groups (children of schizophrenic parents), just like the prospective studies in the general population, show that the future schizophrenics present, comparatively to the “control-subjects”, delays on their psychomotor development, cognitive deficits and some behavioral particularities. Such data seem to confirm the idea from which the schizophrenia would correspond to a neurodevelopmental disturb whose expression varies along one’s life. The clinical and developmental intricacies of the rear cases of schizophrenia that begin during childhood make some authors think that it could be related to a particular entity and whose belonging to the “autistic spectrum” still needs to be researched.
Child; psychological expressivity; schizophrenia; autistic spectrum